Reinvention for Disruptive Times Seminar 3

Attainable Production

Thu, August 13, 1pm PT / 4pm ET

Virtual | 90 Min

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Co-Presented by Filmmakers Collaborative SF and Re-Present Media

This seminar will address production approaches for making films that are achievable and cost-efficient during a time of disruption. The panelists will share their unique processes and choices that help them get their films completed while staying focused on their top priorities. We will emphasize how to get the most out of your funding by working strategically and finding efficiencies.

Topics will include:

  • Strategizing about what makes a film “achievable.”

  • Having an efficient production without sacrificing quality.

  • Collaborative approaches to building your production team and crew.

  • Building up success by being resourceful.

Guest Panelists:

Claudine Cho, Co-Founder/Filmmaker, OOF Stories

John de Graaf, Filmmaker

Joseph Graham, Filmmaker & Educator

Cost:

Recordings:

  • Registrants will have access to a recording for the purchased session for 7 days. The recording will be sent in a follow-up email, along with slides and downloadable resources, after the event.

  • You will also receive a recording of Session 1 for a limited time.

  • FCSF members will have continuing access to the recordings through their membership. Members can access our recordings library via the member portal on the FCSF website.

Guest Panelists:

Claudine Cho is the co-founder of OOF Stories, a filmmaking collective telling stories to uplift AANHPI communities. Her filmmaking is grounded in her roots as a political organizer and speechwriter, campaigning for universal health care in rural communities across the United States. Prior to her U.S. political work, she helped establish the Museum of Sexual Slavery in South Korea, translating obituaries and testimonies of 'comfort women' who were enslaved by the Imperial Japanese Army. As a storyteller, she is most interested in exploring how the experience of grief can expand our lives.

John de Graaf has been directing and writing documentaries, often for public television, for 46 years, winning more than 100 regional, national and international awards for filmmaking - including the highest award for legal reporting from the American Bar Association. More than a dozen of his films have been broadcast nationally in primetime on PBS, including his 1997 hit, Affluenza. His most recent film is Stewart Udall: the Politics of Beauty - partly financed through a campaign on Kickstarter. The John de Graaf Environmental Filmmaking Award is presented annually at the Wild and Scenic Film Festival in California. He spent 32 years with KCTS, the Seattle PBS affiliate, has taught documentary production at three colleges and authored four books. He lives in Seattle.

Joseph Graham is a San Francisco-based filmmaker, writer, and educator whose work explores identity, desire, memory, performance, and human connection. His feature films Vanilla (2006), Strapped (2010), and Beautiful Something (2016) were distributed internationally and continue to reach audiences through streaming and home video platforms. In addition to directing narrative features, Graham created animated commercials for MTV and produced experimental works exhibited in galleries and underground film festivals. His artistic practice has been shaped by both film and theater, including twelve years with the Bay Area experimental theater company Kaliyuga Arts, and he has taught directing, screenwriting, performance, and film production for more than two decades, including serving as Senior Adjunct Faculty in the Film Department at California College of the Arts.

Moderators:

Jennifer Crystal Chien is a documentary filmmaker with a focus on personal storytelling from immigrants and people of color. In 2017, she co-founded Re-Present Media, a grassroots nonprofit that advocates for personal storytelling in documentary film and nonfiction media. In addition to presenting films with community dialogues by established filmmakers, Re-Present Media also offers professional development for emerging filmmakers and coordinates field-wide advocacy campaigns to support and elevate voices from communities not often seen in media. Jennifer was named a DOC NYC Documentary New Leader in 2022. Jennifer also serves as the Board President of Filmmakers Collaborative SF.

Kevin White is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with a focus on environmental and social issues. He has more than a dozen films that are in distribution, including his most recent film, Wilder than Wild: Fire, Forests and the Future, which has had 450+ community screenings and more than 850 broadcasts on PBS, plus educational distribution with Video Project. Kevin is the Co-Founder and Executive Director for Filmmakers Collaborative SF, and frequently consults with filmmakers on story approach, fundraising, and distribution. He is also on the Board of several media nonprofits.

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